Example sentences of "[adj] in a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , what may look like a good deal now , as the UK emerges from its adjustment period of higher interest rates and recession , could look rather different in a few years ' time . |
| 2 | Until such a time peasants in a country like France were really only interested in a few restricted matters like land , taxes , and the threat of military service . |
| 3 | This particular defence was optional in the EC Product Liability Directive but has been adopted in the United Kingdom ; it seems sensible because standards of safety change over time and what might seem perfectly acceptable now might be considered grossly unsafe in a few years time . |
| 4 | By the delicacy of her person and the brilliancy of her eye she had tinder enough in her constitution to catch a well struck spark and I trusted I should know how to set her ablaze in a few months more . |
| 5 | It is impossible in a few words to do justice to Schleiermacher 's stature and impact . |
| 6 | ‘ He 'll be fine in a few days , my dear , with an infusion of clover and foxglove to steady his heart . |
| 7 | I 'll be fine in a few minutes . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We 'll know the number for sure in a few months as we get closer to completion ’ , he says . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been involved in a few of these things but I 've never seen anyone bring it up to the level he did — he turned it up a few notches . ’ |
| 10 | Some take a little longer to persuade than others , and , like many of my colleagues , I have been involved in a few " Sweeny " type incidents ashore and afloat . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been involved in a few preliminary meetings so far to pick a training squad , and I 've also got involved in the training sessions themselves . |
| 12 | Jonna was not slow to remind them that he and Maisie hoped to see them at their wedding , due in a few weeks ' time at Easter . |
| 13 | Beta releases of AIX and OS/2 Mach microkernels are due in a few months and in the second half of the year respectively . |
| 14 | Beta releases of AIX and OS/2 Mach microkernels are due in a few months and in the second half of the year respectively . |
| 15 | Hopefully hopefully the baby 'll be asleep in a few minutes . |
| 16 | I think Sega are conning people who pay £45 for a game that the complete in a few days . |
| 17 | In August , 1952 , more than nine inches fell in a few hours at Lynmouth , Devon . |
| 18 | This group , which included what are known as rural or quasi-samurai , was particularly numerous in a few important domains , such as Satsuma and Chóshú . |
| 19 | After a simple pre-take off litany ( minus the F for flaps ) which should be familiar to any Cessna 150 pilot , the Aircoupe accelerated down Halfpenny Green 's Runway 34 in a formation take-off , becoming airborne in a few hundred feet before I had to throttle back to keep in station with the hard-climbing 172 camera ship . |
| 20 | At present echo planar imaging is only available in a few research centres worldwide . |
| 21 | It is native to Europe and Asia , growing mainly in well-drained ground on hill and mountainsides , and wasteland ; it is naturalized in a few places in Britain and grows well in temperate to warm regions of North America . |
| 22 | ‘ Sunderland have become increasingly desperate in a few departments . |
| 23 | Both of these French strategies illustrated a common belief in the need to move quickly and to be big in a few global market sectors . |
| 24 | For example , the sedimentary rocks that form the top geological layer in much of southern Britain may be only a few hundred metres thick in a few isolated sites . |
| 25 | In taking this view we are not denying that the loss of liberty may actually be necessary in a few extreme cases and this should only be where the child presents a significant danger to him or herself or where there is a significant risk of major further offending and severe damage to community . |
| 26 | Then he , too , frowned and was beginning to say something when suddenly there was one sharp whimper and , although Sophie did her best , Sandy was dead in a few minutes . |
| 27 | Green made another appeal in the Mercury in October 1793 , saying that his plan would be ready in a few weeks , but it was not in fact published until late in 1794 . |
| 28 | Olga heard him singing in the bathroom and shouted that supper would be ready in a few minutes . |
| 29 | On March 2nd 1872 , a letter came from the Mayor saying that the Corporation 's building would be ready in a few days and that they would be willing to receive patients under ‘ such arrangements as may be deemed best adapted to check the progress of the epidemic ’ . |
| 30 | Sufficiently powerful accelerators will be ready in a few years , and most physicists are confident that they will confirm the Salam-Weinberg theory . |